As it became clear that the Republican primary election in the 43rd Senatorial District was going to result in defeat for the Republican incumbent, Roy McDonald, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo took the unusual, even unorthodox, step of announcing his willingness to endorse the sitting senator were the latter to pursue retaining his seat as the already-endorsed candidate of a third political party. It turned out that McDonald declined to further actively contest the election, even ...

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